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The Chef Win Series is a response to: "How has Chef changed our operations for the better, in the past 2 years since our shop adopted it?" Example:

Testing, Made Real

Two years ago I was trying to explain to my partner - an ops guy - why devs love automated testing. "You see, I often develop one thing, only to break something else without realizing it. This is my life as a dev. So I use automated regression testing as a safety net."

Like most things that devs say, my partner did not even pretend to listen. But he was implementing many new Chef recipes, and as he built them - especially with multiple recipes on the same box - he began experiencing some of this same need to automate regression tests. Read more »